- Can an ad boycott change Facebook? It's complicated
Thursday, July 2nd 2020
Facebook’s current relationship status with advertisers: It’s complicated. Steven Levy, tech journalist at Wired and author of Facebook: The Inside Story, discusses the Facebook advertising boycott campaign. The #StopHateforProfit campaign has picked up support from hundreds of companies, including Unilever, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Starbucks and all of Canada’s ‘Big 5’ banks, to pressure the social media company to combat hate speech, fight misinformation and deal with threats of violence on the platform.
- Squeaky wheels: Two opinions on bike lanes
Tuesday, June 30th 2020
For Toronto’s cyclists, many of their dreams have come true, as the city has aggressively and quickly added a number of new bike lanes on several thoroughfares to provide more space for those travelling on two wheels. Toronto has added 40 kilometres of bike lanes to the city this spring. To discuss this, This Matters invited two Star columnists who have opined on this issue. Norris McDonald is a columnist in the paper’s Wheels section, while Matt Elliott writes about city affairs and municipal politics.
- Breaking down the Theriault trial and Dafonte Miller's call for justice
Monday, June 29th 2020
Wendy Gillis, Toronto Star’s crime reporter, breaks down the details of the Theriault trial verdict with Adrian Cheung. And they discuss how this case is playing into larger questions of community trust in policing and what justice looks like in Canada’s judicial system.
- A lawyer breaks down the "extreme intoxication" defence
Friday, June 26th 2020
Some say the "extreme intoxication” defence sends the wrong message on sexual assault, and takes society back to a time when judges found ways to excuse violence against women. In today’s episode, Saba Eitizaz talks to criminal lawyer and social justice advocate Caryma Sa’d for her legal opinion the debate – and finds out what all of this could actually mean in a court room.
- “Yellow Peril”: How the pandemic is fuelling anti-Chinese racism
Thursday, June 25th 2020
Three Canadian journalists discuss anti-Chinese racism. The Toronto Star’s digital producer, Evy Kwong, audio engineer/producer, Sean Pattendon, and host/producer, Adrian Cheung, are in conversation about their experiences as Chinese-Canadians during the pandemic. Then, an interview with Justin Kong, executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council on how the organization is collecting data on racial incidents and the work that is being done within Asian-Canadian communities to dispel the ‘model minority myth.’
